# laptop weirdness

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [April 13, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934 "2015-04-13T17:55:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934/1 "2015-04-13T17:55:30Z")

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Just started having an issue on my work laptop (win8164). Everything  
was fine Friday, no updates done Friday or over the weekend.

Now today a couple of client packages I run on this machine take 5  
minutes plus to launch.

I’ve tried reinstalling the client software, but that did nothing.

I’ve been googling the issue but have not found anything yet.

Any ideas? Besides fdisk, going to linux, or anything like that? 😉

–  
Stevo

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934/2 "2015-04-13T19:02:50Z")

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On 4/13/2015 9:55 AM, Stevo wrote:[color=blue]

> Just started having an issue on my work laptop (win8164). Everything  
> was fine Friday, no updates done Friday or over the weekend.
> 
> Now today a couple of client packages I run on this machine take 5  
> minutes plus to launch.
> 
> I’ve tried reinstalling the client software, but that did nothing.
> 
> I’ve been googling the issue but have not found anything yet.
> 
> Any ideas? Besides fdisk, going to linux, or anything like that? 😉  
> [/color]  
> I’ve seen weird annoying slowness caused by disk errors - could it be  
> that simple?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934/3 "2015-04-13T19:16:14Z")

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Mary Wood sounds like they ‘said’:  
[color=blue]

> I’ve seen weird annoying slowness caused by disk errors - could it be  
> that simple?[/color]

So my response to Mary’s comment is…

I will run a check, but it only seems to be two apps, everything else  
works fine.

–  
Stevo

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/laptop-weirdness/26934/4 "2015-04-14T11:00:19Z")

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On 13/04/2015 15:55, Stevo wrote:[color=blue]

> Any ideas? Besides fdisk, going to linux, or anything like that? ;-)[/color]

sysinternals process monitor is your friend. Delay is almost certainly  
something the code is trying to access on start, procmon should tell you  
what 😃